Do we need an escaping mechanism for slashes in hierarchical strings?

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Closed ghost closed 5 years ago

ghost commented 5 years ago

Hierarchical strings consist of forward-slash-separated components, so a component can't contain a slash. There are two options:

Explicitly prohibit slashes in components.
Define an escaping mechanism. For example, JSON Pointer (RFC 6901) is made of just such forward-slash-separated strings. It uses ~1 for literal slash, and (since ~ is now special) ~0 for a literal tilde.

Which shall it be?

ghost commented 5 years ago

Duplicate of #183.